Institute for Advanced Professional Studies

Academic Partner Program

Overview:

IAPS assists colleges and universities to develop, deliver and manage corporate training and continuing
education programs. We apply our 35 years of experience and offer a full range of services including courses
to complement university offerings, courseware and on-line training development, program coordination
and marketing, and corporate education consulting and training services, e.g. conducting training needs assessments.

IAPS History:

The training capabilities of IAPS evolved from years of work at Northeastern
University's Center for Continuing Education. From the mid 1960's to the mid 1970's,
Northeastern pioneered in combining the application of Organizational and
Professional Development concepts, Group Dynamics theories and Adult Education
principles to the design and delivery of advanced training for experienced,
industry-based technical professionals.

Hundreds of non credit, graduate level courses were developed and successfully
delivered to thousands of engineers, scientists and technical managers as part of
Northeastern's State-of-the-Arts Program. The program's faculty was comprised of
consultants and prominent professionals from advanced technology companies as well
as senior faculty with industry consulting experience from the area's leading
colleges and universities.

IAPS was founded in 1977 by Donald French [tenured Associate Professor and
Director of Continuing Professional Education (Engineering, Applied Sciences,
Nutrition, Pharmacology and Technology Management) from 1/1969 - 6/1977 at
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts]. In 1977, Edward C. Bursk
[Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School and Honorary Editor, Harvard Business
Review] joined IAPS as a workshop leader [Marketing and Development of New Products],
and served as Vice President from 1978 to 1984.

University Partnerships:

From 1977 to 1989, IAPS developed, marketed and conducted numerous advanced
technology workshops, in major US cities, for prominent universities including:

Boston University

Northeastern University

Polytechnic Institute of New York (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering)

The topics ranged from Satellite Antenna Technology to Laser Scanning Systems to
Ada Programming to BSD UNIX Device Driver Design. While most of the participants
were from the US, our workshops attracted many government and private sector
engineers and technical managers from Canada, Europe and Japan.

In-Service Training for University Technical Staff:

Most of our on-campus, open enrollment workshops were also heavily attended by our partner university's
technical staff members. Universities partaking in this arrangement included:

Cornell University

Purdue University

The availability of on-campus workshops enabled each partner university to
provide its staff with high quality, advanced technology training at a mere
fraction of the cost of out-of-town seminars. And, by scheduling these workshops
when regular semester courses were not in session, we used available classroom
and computing facilities and enabled the staff to be trained with minimal
interference with their regular duties.

Convenient access to our workshops became a valued employee benefit and made
it easier for the university to attract and retain highly qualified technical
personnel. In addition, some of our industry-based participants were so
impressed with the host university that they applied for admission to its
graduate program.

Our Faculty:

Our workshop leaders are all effective communicators. They are well respected
consultants, industry-based experts or faculty and senior
technical staff members from leading institutions such as:

Boston University

Brown University

Mills College

Northeastern University

NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Stanford University

University of California at Berkeley

University of California at Los Angeles

University of California at San Diego

University of Southern California

Wellesley College

Our Services:

Public Seminars and Workshops

IAPS works with its academic partners to plan, design, market, deliver and
administer high quality training programs for practicing professionals. While
we can make a solid contribution to the development and presentation of most
technical and scientific courses, our focus over the past 25 years has been on
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Internet Marketing, and Technology
Management.

IAPS provides a complete turnkey continuing education program or delivers
specific services on an as needed basis. We supply our own instructors and
course materials and/or work with our partner's faculty to create and deliver
well received instructional programs.

Corporate Education

IAPS assists its academic partners to design and deliver a full range of
live and distance learning instructional programs and provide
Education Consulting and Technical Training Support Services
to government and industry clients, worldwide.
Each instructional program (distance learning, on campus, or on-site training) can be customized to meet the needs of our partner's
corporate client.

Further Information:

We welcome your inquiries and
the opportunity to discuss your institution's continuing education and corporate training
support requirements.